> > Which of these would be the best choice for Gentoo? I have a > > Beaglebone but now I'm looking for something with video for HD > > playback. > > > > - Grant > > I'd say none of them (yet). > > It doesn't matter what other features in the form of fancy IO and neat > circuitry is put on such boards, they are all limited by what the CPU > can do. If the board has a RealTek chip, it;s limited by what the > RealTek dev software provides. > > I have a Raspberry Pi, and doing what it was designed to do is > something it is very good at. It was designed to teach kids how to > program. It was not designed to play full HD video. > > The Pi suffers with playback the very same way all the other ARM media > players out there suffer, whether they be AC Ryan, Medi8ter, Xtreamer > or whatever - as soon as you have to run some controlling software as > well as the codec, and especially if you have to decode audio on the > device (as opposed to having the amp do it in hardware), it stutters. > The cpu just cannot cut it.
That's too bad. I thought the GPU on at least some of these boards was capable of smooth 1080p playback. The Pandaboard ES claims "Full HD (1080p) multi-standard video encode/decode" but I suppose that doesn't mean it's stutter-free. http://pandaboard.org/content/pandaboard-es - Grant
